PRINCE Harry made his musical debut on Gary Barlow's Jubilee single, 'Sing' it was revealed today.

The 27-year-old plays the tambourine in the track composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Take That singer.

The track also features Gareth Malone's Military Wives and was the brain child of Harry's father Prince Charles.

Barlow revealed: "I had a list of questions I wanted to ask him - what does the Queen like, what does she listen to? And he came into the room with six CDs. We were like 'Okay, what's this?'.

"And he said 'Well, I've brought some of my music collection cos you need to understand that because we travel so much, we get to hear so much music - it's not what you'd think'. So I was shocked.

"I was like 'Have you ever even talked about music on camera before and he said 'No-one's ever asked me about music'."

Barlow travelled the Commonwealth to get inspiration for the single.

He said: "So in my chat with him he said 'If you really want the Queen to like this, find people; go and travel and find people'.

"And it was at that point I had to go back to the BBC and say 'We need a bit more money because we've got to get on a plane a few times and go off round the world'.

"But he changed the whole thing cos I was just going to do it here in London with the Philharmonic Orchestra and all the rest of it - but once I'd met with him I realised we've got to go into the world and go and do this."

Barlow took a laptop on his tour of far-flung destinations, using it as a portable studio.

He said: "I wondered whether some people thought 'This guy's not really doing this, he's having us on here', because it looked so bloody amateur.

"I just had a microphone, a laptop and a pair of headphones and that was kind of the thrill of it for me.

"Technology has moved on so much that now I can do it in this little box - but look what we've done.

"We've ended up with 200-plus people on this record."

Barlow, who composed with Lloyd Webber added: "Me and Andrew wrote it in January.

"An afternoon round at his house, couple of pianos and it was really good fun actually.

"We did all the melodies in an afternoon and then I waited to do the lyrics until I got to Kenya, at this spot the Queen stayed.

"She was in Kenya on holiday when she found out her father had died and she found out she was the Queen so I drove to this place called Treetops and I wrote the lyrics sat under this lovely tree which I thought was quite a nice bit of symmetry.